The Rambler (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Type of Work: Periodical essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays, Journalism
- Subjects: Literature, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Fables, Vanity
Critical Evaluation:
Regularly every Tuesday and Saturday during the years 1750 to 1752 Samuel Johnson published one of the more than two hundred essays that make up the RAMBLER. He records in one of the later papers the difficulties a man with his procrastinating temperament had in meeting a regular deadline like this one, and he indicates that many of his brief moralizing works were hastily composed and sent off to the press unrevised. It is thus especially remarkable that his essays give such a uniformly polished, coherent effect. The style is throughout dignified,...
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